Lancope® PRESS RELEASE

Customer Survey Results Reaffirm Lancope’s StealthWatch System As the Industry’s Leading Network Behavior Analysis Solution
~Lancope Continues to Receive High Ratings for Customer Support and Product Excellence in Flow-based Anomaly Detection and Network Performance Monitoring~

Atlanta, October 3, 2007 — Lancope®, Inc., the provider of the StealthWatch™ System, the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) and response solution, today announced that it has once again earned high customer approval ratings in the company’s annual customer satisfaction survey, reaffirming StealthWatch as the best enterprise solution for flow-based anomaly detection and network performance monitoring. Lancope maintained these high ratings following rapid growth in 2006. This year Lancope enjoys continued momentum and record growth, acquiring numerous U.S. government agencies and Global 2000 enterprises as customers— including the U.S. Department of Interior, AirTran Airways and Siemens Enterprise Communications— and was awarded a U.S. patent for flow-based detection of network intrusions.

In an August 2007 survey, Lancope found that 99 percent of customers surveyed reported satisfaction with StealthWatch product features and functionality. Lancope customers cited excellent customer support, scalability of technology, accuracy and speed of operational awareness, and network visibility among the top reasons for their favorable opinions about Lancope. Four in five customers found that StealthWatch saved considerable time in responding to network incidents and significantly increased productivity by providing accurate operational awareness of the network. Notably, 46 percent of customers recognized StealthWatch as a best-of-breed NBA technology and did not consider evaluating competitive technologies. 

These findings reinforce Yankee Group’s recently published report entitled, “Adjust Your Behavior: Network Management Incorporates Behavioral Analysis to Optimize Performance,” in which analyst George Hamilton states, “Behavioral analysis provides visibility into all the network activity to optimize the end-user experience, understand and monitor for meaningful change, troubleshoot performance issues faster, and deliver value to both network and security operations…The bottom line is that behavior-enhanced management and monitoring provides needed visibility that can help network managers restore some predictability to network and application performance.”

Previously Yankee Group’s research confirmed Lancope as a “Powerhouse” NBA market leader and recognized StealthWatch as a best-of-breed NBA solution: http://www.lancope.com/news/12132006.aspx.

Key Survey Findings

  • Seven in 10 customers were very satisfied with StealthWatch and reported that the NBA technology exceeded its promised value
  • 94 percent of customers applaud StealthWatch for usability and ease-of-use
  • 82 percent of customers spend less than 10 hours with StealthWatch and drive maximum value through benefits including:
    • increased visibility of network traffic
    • better resource utilization
    • faster ability to identify the source of problems
    •  improved capability to quickly assess top problems
    • accuracy and speed of operational awareness of abnormal activity
    • powerful, user identification
  • 40 percent of customers use StealthWatch to help demonstrate compliance with regulations, including PCI, HIPAA and GLB

Industry Trends

Survey results also lend credibility to several industry analysts’ belief that the adoption of flow-based data is rising. In this survey alone, Lancope found that over 50 percent of its customers currently enable Cisco IOS NetFlow™ or sFlow®. Even more compelling, another 36 percent are planning to enable at least one type of flow data, whether NetFlow, sFlow or IPFIX, in the coming year.

“Once again Lancope has achieved high customer satisfaction levels and our 98 percent customer renewal rating is indicative of the continued confidence that our customers have in our company, our people and our technology,” said Harland LaVigne, president and CEO for Lancope. “We are acquiring new enterprise customers faster than any other vendor in our space, and our high ratings reflect our commitment to delivering flow-based solutions that maximize existing technology investments, improve network security and optimize network performance.”

About Lancope

Lancope, Inc. is the provider of the StealthWatch System, the most widely used network behavior analysis (NBA) and response solution that unifies behavior-based anomaly detection and network optimization capabilities to protect critical information assets and ensure network performance by preventing costly downtime, repair and loss of reputation. StealthWatch streamlines security and network operations into one process, reduces time and resources, and eliminates the costs and complexity associated with non-integrated point products. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria-certified, StealthWatch received the 2007 Global Excellence Award in NBA and was named Best of Show at Interop2006. Defending the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities, StealthWatch protects hundreds of enterprise customers worldwide, more than all direct competitors combined.A contributing member of the Trusted Computing Group, Lancope also partners with fellow best-of-breed solution providers through its Technology Alliance Program, which includes Cisco Systems, Foundry Networks, IBM Tivoli, Check Point, TippingPoint, ArcSight and A10 Networks.  Lancope is a privately held, venture-backed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, call 888-419-1462 or visit www.lancope.com.

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